The post Polymarket Airdrop Farmers Have Become ‘More Sophisticated’ as Token Launch Looms appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. In brief Traders on Polymarket are anticipating a potential token launch, and some users are looking to farm it. Last year, airdrop farming was visibly rampant, with many users engaging in obvious wash trading methods. Now, however, the wash trading has gotten more sophisticated while other farmers are just optimizing their use of the prediction market. Users attempting to farm a potential Polymarket airdrop have upped their operations in an attempt to make it harder for the prediction market to exclude them. It follows recent Decrypt reporting that Polymarket plans to release a crypto token once it has regained a foothold in the United States—likely in 2026. Last year, as many users anticipated that a token launch would follow the U.S. election, farmers bought and sold large positions to artificially inflate their volume. They did so in an effort to position themselves for a larger allocation of a future token airdrop, which are often designed to reward a crypto protocol’s most active and fervent users. This method was extremely easy to spot and annoying for normal users, as it clogged the activity feed—so much so that pseudonymous Polymarket whale Fhantom Bets said he’d personally report them. Now, both Fhantom Bets and notable Polymarket user CSP Trading told Decrypt they believe farmers may have gotten “more sophisticated” in their efforts, as that previous pattern has mostly disappeared. “Before, it was pretty obvious. They’d do huge $50,000 block buys against themselves—that was pretty obviously unsophisticated wash trading,” CSPTrading told Decrypt. “I don’t really see that for the sports markets that I’m market making; that’s the only reason I think they’ve gotten ‘more sophisticated,’ or given up.” Fhantom Bets agreed that airdrop farming on Polymarket appears less rampant than it was last year, but is certain that people are still doing it. Previously,… The post Polymarket Airdrop Farmers Have Become ‘More Sophisticated’ as Token Launch Looms appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. In brief Traders on Polymarket are anticipating a potential token launch, and some users are looking to farm it. Last year, airdrop farming was visibly rampant, with many users engaging in obvious wash trading methods. Now, however, the wash trading has gotten more sophisticated while other farmers are just optimizing their use of the prediction market. Users attempting to farm a potential Polymarket airdrop have upped their operations in an attempt to make it harder for the prediction market to exclude them. It follows recent Decrypt reporting that Polymarket plans to release a crypto token once it has regained a foothold in the United States—likely in 2026. Last year, as many users anticipated that a token launch would follow the U.S. election, farmers bought and sold large positions to artificially inflate their volume. They did so in an effort to position themselves for a larger allocation of a future token airdrop, which are often designed to reward a crypto protocol’s most active and fervent users. This method was extremely easy to spot and annoying for normal users, as it clogged the activity feed—so much so that pseudonymous Polymarket whale Fhantom Bets said he’d personally report them. Now, both Fhantom Bets and notable Polymarket user CSP Trading told Decrypt they believe farmers may have gotten “more sophisticated” in their efforts, as that previous pattern has mostly disappeared. “Before, it was pretty obvious. They’d do huge $50,000 block buys against themselves—that was pretty obviously unsophisticated wash trading,” CSPTrading told Decrypt. “I don’t really see that for the sports markets that I’m market making; that’s the only reason I think they’ve gotten ‘more sophisticated,’ or given up.” Fhantom Bets agreed that airdrop farming on Polymarket appears less rampant than it was last year, but is certain that people are still doing it. Previously,…